Shaming Manels

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The all mail panel is a website where you can submit photos or instances of conferences, government events that include only men on their panel. It's not very intense shaming, right? There's not single individuals pulled out. But then a colleague and I were talking and he pointed out that they would actually start shaming two and three person panels. And yet no matter where we decide the behavior is shameful, we are setting these thresholds are very value-laden.

David and Tamler welcome author and environmental science professor Jennifer Jacquet to the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of shame. What's the difference between shame and guilt? Is shaming effective for generating social progress or getting tax cheats to pay up? Is twitter shaming on the rise or on its way out? And what does David do when he's alone in the dark?

But before all of that, David and Tamler introduce a new way to support the podcast--through our Patreon account (patreon.com/verybadwizards). Plus, we discuss the retraction of a press release announcing that a professor agreed to referee a journal article (!) And can one passage get Tamler, the eternal optimist, to hate philosophy?

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